HAMDig

Are you running anything like this in Arizona? Has anyone from Wisconsin said they miss what you had going in Kaukauna?

If its missed then maybe thats enough reason to put something at my house, the BS of building it all is somewhat off putting though. But I'd think about it.

Posting an email swap I had with N8GNJ: Very, very, very tersely: Amateur Packet Radio was invented by some hams in Montreal, QC. They created some kits, or something to get some activity going. They realized they were onto a good thing and some of the hams created DataRadio which sold exclusively ...

It occured to me that this radio, could be a good candiate for DroidStar and or M17 since its basically a black box and an app. Related is also the BTECH GMRS-PRO 5W GPS, Bluetooth, App Programmable GMRS Mobile Radio and Retevis RT99, & RT78 Rumors are; Bluetooth communication with the radio are ...

Technical article on what enables a cheap DMR radio:

https://jhart99.com/auctus-a6/

In this episode of Linux In the Hamshack, Doug, AD8DP is interviewed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze-OVZ6Nb5E

Cool guy

Steve, N8GNJ also has some stuff at superpacket.org https://www.superpacket.org/2021/04/welcome-tag-nw-it-readers.html When I read of his latest there reminded me of why I like reading what he'd write. Simple put; He thinks like me. Amateur Radio exists to provide a portion of spectrum for personal ...

I used to read Steve's columns in CQ-VHF.

He seems to have recently revived his blog that was long time dormant:

https://www.n8gnj.org/2021/02/them-that ... ed-v2.html

A couple years ago WPS changed out everyones electric and gas meters. They use 900 MHz, so that band is pretty noisy now. Even prior to this I wasn't able to get much further on 900 MHz until I added amplifiers. The lower you go in frequency the larger the fresnel zone, so I am not meeting that, and ...

I've tried a number of things over the years. Basically you need to have access to a number of good sites (100 ft) or you really aren't going to get the stuff to go very far. The terrain here vs elsewhere is pretty flat, and we have some pretty good mature trees. Without getting above the trees you ...